Sentences with phrase «land conservation focuses»

The group's land conservation focuses on farmland, open spaces, forests, water resources and wildlife habitats.

Richard K. Sullivan, Jr., Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs, which oversees all state land conservation, said, «Since taking office, Governor (Deval) Patrick has made a historic $ 230 million investment in land conservation focused on three goals: investing in urban parks, preserving working farms and forests, and protecting large natural landscapes for habitat.

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His focus was South America, where he founded the Foundation for Deep Ecology in 1990 and The Conservation Land Trust in 1992.

Mortelliti, who holds degrees from the La Sapienza (University of Rome), is an Assistant Professor in Wildlife Habitat Conservation at the University of Maine, where his lab's research is focused on the impact of land - use change on vertebrate species (mammals and birds).

«With the establishment of Land of the Leopard National Park, in conjunction with other conservation efforts, we can now start to focus on how to begin bringing them back.»

Along with a new scientific paper, Lamb and his colleagues, conservation scientists with the BC government, have produced a land management guide focused on maintaining the spatial integrity of the landscape to bolster grizzly bear density.

An analysis of species distributions in North America, unveiled here on 18 June at the annual meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology, suggests that randomly picking imperiled species — rather than focusing on particular ones — protects as many life - forms in less land.

In 2005 Tom joined the California Program of The Nature Conservancy where the focus was a mix of private rangeland conservation and engagement on federal lands management.

His research is at the interface of ecosystems, land use, and climate change focusing on tropical deforestation and degradation, functional diversity of tropical canopies, conservation of African savannas, invasive species and climate change, and the effects of land use on the global carbon cycle.

Klean Kanteen is a part of «1 % for the Planet,» donating 1 % of their annual revenue to many environmentally focused non-profits like the Land and Water Conservation.

Coverage of areas specially conserved for biodiversity and ecosystem functions should be increased (at least to the Aichi Target 11 of 17 % terrestrial and 10 % marine area), with systems of conservation being democratized and based on integration of rights and responsibilities; in all kinds of land / water uses, activities that are ecologically damaging need to be modified or replaced; high priority should also be given to the regeneration and restoration of degraded ecosystems and the revival of populations of threatened species; equitable access (including through territorial and resource tenure) must be accorded to natural resources, with special focus on populations with high and direct dependence on such resources for their survival and livelihoods.

«While many organizations focus on animal conservation through the preservation of land, we are the only nonprofit dedicated to saving the lives of animals by safeguarding their health.

A particular focus is Tiger Quoll conservation, and a landscape approach to wildlife and ecosystem conservation, working across private and public land.

The film will focus on the efforts of marine scientists at the Carmabi Research Institute to foster a culture of conservation in coastal fishing communities and land developers.

The government program includes a moratorium on expansion of cultivation, control and prevention of forest fires, assessment of degradation impacts to determine future sustainable land use, implementation of sustainable land use, conservation of peatlands, a focus on resolving conflicts over resource issues, and enhancement of good governance.

I support conservation measures for specified land & ocean resources, with a focus on tourism jobs.

Other efforts will focus on adopting sustainable agricultural practices and restoring degraded lands abutting conservation areas to improve land use management and livelihoods.

Ricardo and the Social Environmental Institute are currently focused on youth education programs that promote sustainable development in Brazil's Ribeira Valley, where Western conservation models are squeezing out traditional agricultural practices that have sustained the land for generations of families.

In addition DRC was singled out by UNEP just this week as one of only 15 countries where, in their opinion, international efforts at forest conservation should be focused, but 15 % of the country's land area has been signed over to Zimbabwe's army — not notably skilled loggers.

That began to change with the ascent of Chief Almir, who has shifted the focus to long - term sustainability, winning major support from the Brazilian national government, conservation organizations such as Forest Trends, and through a major mapping project with the Amazon Conservation Team and Google Maps that, in rich detail, documented the natural and human history of the land oveconservation organizations such as Forest Trends, and through a major mapping project with the Amazon Conservation Team and Google Maps that, in rich detail, documented the natural and human history of the land oveConservation Team and Google Maps that, in rich detail, documented the natural and human history of the land over the years.

This ballot initiative is a notable test of whether hunters and the outdoorsy set, with their old - style conservation values focused on open lands, can find equal footing with the boomtown machinery in a state that is going through a remarkable phase of development.

Over the last few years he has been focused on using carbon finance to accelerate land restoration, conservation and sustainable land use around the world.

This project is designed to work with a broad array of landowners certified to SFI standards to identify priority habitats for bird conservation, improve management scenarios for these habitats, and focus on locations where the lands intersect with critical habitats in North America.